Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood